High Hopes Stamps With The Dragon

These two challenges just happened to gel together so I am sharing this card with you and entering it into this week's High Hopes Challenge and also the Stampin with the Dragon challenge.  I find it quite amusing that I chose a High Hopes dragon for my card and layered it onto a tag for the Stampin with the Dragon challenge without really thinking about the image!!!  I would like to suggest it was planned but it wasn't.

The card is actually being sent as a Thank You after a BBQ Party on 25th May - better late than never!  The card also probably fits the Ribbon Carousel challenge this month - Fun in the Sun as the sun did shine that afternoon even though it was a little chilly.

This week has been gorgeous here in the UK and I hope even if the sun isn't shining on you that you are having a good week.

Janine

FOSTV75 - Vacation

Happy Monday to you. At last the sun is shining in the UK and some people may be thinking about holidays and getting a break.  In the USA the children are already out of school for the summer but as we all know there are at least 6 more weeks to go here - here's hoping the teachers have the resources both mental and physical to cope until then.

Today's challenge at FOSTV is to make a card or project relating to holidays (aka vacations).  Most of you will probably think of summer breaks in the country or by the sea but some may think about winter or city breaks or indeed holidays at home. I went for the easy option a palm tree against the sunset - one of my favourite times - sunset, especially on a beautiful beach.

The card uses 3 MFP sets
Flamingos on Vacation
In My Den
Scenic Selections

We would love you to join our challenge so please do check it out here - it will be challenge 75.  There will be a prize (Corn Ears Mini) for one lucky participant so it is certainly worth having a go!

See you soon.

Sketch N Stash 114

Why is it some weeks you see challenges, you intend to do them and then the week just vanishes.  I almost didn't get this one done, finished it this morning.  The image is from Flonz a company in New Zealand and this is its first inking.  It was part of a little prize I won recently and is coloured with Copics.

The papers are from my tray but as they were just odd pieces I cannot tell you the make.  I used a border punch for my white edge (sorry you have to look hard!) and a Spellbinders die to cut the daisy strip.

 

The sun is shining here so I need to get my washing out and get on with my day.  God bless your Sunday. 

 

Janine

Bookmark week

To encourage you all to enter this week's FOSTV challenge of making a bookmark I made a quick and simple Corner Bookmark - it just needs a 4" square and a 2 3/4" square plus your stamped image - Beate has a tutorial on Splitcoast.

I have used the MFP sets Be Wild and Free and Amaryllis Definition.  An elephant never forgets and with a bright bookmark it is easy to remember your page!

Please do join our challenge which can be found here

Have fun!

Inchie Christmas - CCC13 for May

I pulled out my Christmas inchies from Inkadinkado this month to give them an airing and used them for my CCC13 collection for May.

I needed them to be straightforward as I still seem to be busy and with MFP blog hop on the horizon I have lots of cards to do for that too.

I also plan to make another bookmark for this week's FOSTV challenge - please do join in that one.

I made two sets each with 7 cards.

The first set are 4" cards (top photo - 3 are at the back) and the others are 5" (next two photos)

 

I took a couple of closer photos and here they are

Thank you for stopping in - please come again.

VLV May Week 4

Sorry if you have felt bombarded with posts today but I wanted to get all my May VLV cards posted in time to meet the challenge deadline. 

Another anniversary card for week 4.  I used a Gina K stamp with some 2nd generation ink and a perfect pearls mist to make the background which I then embossed with a Spellbinder m-bossabilities folder.  The sentiment is from Verve.

Thanks for looking - enjoy the rest of the week.

VLV May Week 3

This is my 3rd card for VLV for May.  I made this one for my Mum to give to my sister and her husband on their Anniversary which is today.